She’s needed, but immediately doesn’t trust you...

“Jig is up, Zoe... Should I just...?”

You start to ask, and Zoe’s response is to cleanly open up so you can step free, and as you do so, she reseals, in that same time, you glanced around and noticed Chloe wrenching a gun out of Dr. Greene’s grip was easily as plucking a pacifier out of a baby’s hand.

“No one’s gonna hurt you, Alessa, so quit it.”

Chloe said, stiff-arming Dr. Greene away as she scrabbled reaching for the gun... Chloe’s response was to unload it, it was a revolver, so she clicked a button and it’s cylinder opened up... However, as soon as Chloe did that, Dr. Greene’s face went pale and she froze.

“Um... Don’t let those bullets fall out of the gun...”

She said warning, the same woman who’d just stared down the barrel of a tank’s main gun was freaking out about some bullets.

“Fragmentation, thermite, napalm... You name it, I was trying to reach critical mass for the pure destructive **** that could come from a handgun, I doubt even you’d be in one piece if more than one hit the ground... I’ll behave...”

Dr. Greene promised, holding up her hands in surrender and slowly stepping back... At least now she wasn’t going to try and get her hands on anymore weapons...

“Well... Now that’s settled... I’m Emily Lockard, I’ve been working with Zoe in a more direct sense for a while now...”

You start to explain, but Dr. Greene has folded her arms and was watching you with an eye that made Zoe a little queasy despite not having a stomach.

“So you got Chloe... And Zoe... And proceeded to come for the third one abnormality..? No... If you were going in order next would be... But in that case... You’re making an army? How strange... What is your method of invasion? Some kind of psionic influence? A resonant tone that opens up the biomechanics console commands embedded deep inside us all..?”

Dr. Greene started to say, sounding like a babbling buffoon, and Zoe let out a sigh...

“She thinks you’ve mind controlled us... And unless you wanna undergo some long... And invasive... Testing... Might be best to **** her to come along... We don’t want to hold a gun to her at all times... Especially not that one...”

Zoe said, gesturing out the window, while Dr. Greene was babbling, Chloe had gone outside and shot at a target marker down range, the gun made her stumble back, apparently it had enough kick to knock down a suprahuman... And the target dummy off in the distance exploded with a small mushroom cloud forming...

“So what are you thinking..?”

You ask, Dr. Greene’s babbling had become more akin to background noise at this point...

“If she thinks you’re a villain due to her paranoia... She’ll remain paranoid until you get something valuable from her...”

Zoe commented, tapping her chin as Chloe re-entered the cement bunker of a lab and gingerly laid the Nuke Gun(patent pending) on the table. An idea popped into her head as Chloe re-entered.

“Dr. Greene, you’re coming with us whether you want to or not. You’ll assist in repairing the damage done in a freak experiment, and then you’ll stop being so crazy.”

You insisted, trying to seem intimidating to some extent, your unfortunately petite stature didn’t do much to assist with that... And Dr. Greene responded with a simple snort.

“And little old you is gonna make me? I said I wouldn’t detonate the C-4 implanted in the walls at a 6 inch square interval. But I’d lop off my hands before helping anyone who has taken control of my... Uh... Loose... Acquaintances...? You’re gonna need an army, ‘Emily’ if that is your real name.”

Dr. Greene said, holding up a detonator with a glowing button on it, which Chloe also snatched out of the Dr.’s hand...

“We don’t have time for this... Chloe?”

You said, and looked to Amanda pointedly, and by extension, the slime inside her... Chloe seemed confused... But after you pointedly looked from her to Dr. Greene a couple times she realized what you meant and immediately caught Dr. Greene in a deep kiss despite her best attempts to lean back and away... It felt wrong, having Chloe inhabit someone’s body nonconsensually, but for one... Dr. Greene had to lose autonomy and gain it back upon the task being done to be satisfied... And on the other... It was frankly rather hot to watch Amanda making out with Dr. Greene, whose body twitched and shuddered slightly, some indications that she was fighting for control, before Amanda stepped back, wiping her lips and realizing with terror that she was holding a detonator that could kill everyone now... She placed it next to the gun... Meanwhile, Dr. Greene was straightening up slightly, smoothing out her clothes and clearing her throat...

“Never um... Never been inside Cait’s body before...”

Dr. Greene’s body stated a little awkwardly, fidgeting slightly before shaking her head and heading for the stairwell. Immediately she seemed, very unusual, it only occurred to you now, but Doctor Caitlyn Greene’s usual movements were jerky and precise, careful to only use as much energy as strictly necessary to do any one thing, it made her come off as almost insect-like, so Chloe’s smooth, rapid but slightly more reckless movements came off as refreshing and charming.

“Got Dr. Greene on board... Sort of... And we’ve got studying to do whenever Shaw’s courier arrives... Not looking forward to it.”

Zoe said with a soft sigh, following after a Cait towards the vacuum tube. Down below, Smith was still waiting for the capsule to arrive, and was tapping his foot to some music, he didn’t seem to notice either Zoe or Chloe or you, totally in his own world...

“Every assistant other than him has quit... He always seems to retreat into some other world when not interacting with Dr. Greene... So we leave him to it, if it keeps him sane and keeps her alive, we try not to worry about it too much one way or another.”

Zoe offered, apparently she had noticed you giving him a weird look. After just a few minutes, the capsule arrived, everyone piled in, and the capsule was off, flying through a straight shot tunnel under the ground at **** defying speeds... When you got back to Hideki labs, the reporters and such that were buzzing around about the acquisition had packed up and left, so things seemed more normal... Everything else felt... Tired, it was only noon and it felt like you’d been fighting all day about stuff... Zoe felt particularly drained, pretty much anything to do with Shaw took a lot out of her for a reason even she didn’t know... She glanced to you, and piped up.

“You’re gonna stick around the lab, right Chloe? Mind watching out for that courier and dropping by my place once they arrive with a take home computer? We could make it a whole thing, like a slumber party..?”

She suggested, and Chloe seemed to brighten up, and you felt so relieved you could kiss her.

“Sounds like a blast! See you two around.”

Cait chirped at Chloe’s command, she then trotted off and away, thankfully there was no one around to notice Dr. Greene not acting crazy...

“In the mean time... Wanna grab lunch? Then maybe some relaxing before we reconvene to do homework?”

Zoe asked, she’d kill for a hot bath, and it really spoke to how much she wanted something when she muscled past her desire to served you to request a certain idea.

“Only if we’re ‘together’ together by the time we’re in the car.”

You giggled, slipping an arm around her waist and leading the way out of the labs.